Robert A. Heinlein Quotes (138 Quotes)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage Budget the luxuries first Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch comejudgment day.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago

Never insult anyone by accident.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Bo

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore Robert A

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.